A ——-
FARM AND GARDEN
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MOTES OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS.
The Home Price of feed-~The Guinea Fowl
~0ats and Barley-~Bedding Tuberous
Begonias, Etc, Etc.
The Home Price of Feed.
When farmers feed much that they
produce to stock kept by themselves
it is not fair to the stock to charge
for fhe feed what it would bring in
the market. Feeding at home saves
much labor in marketing, and there is
besides the manure pile, which returns
to the soil a great deal of the plant
If the stock is reasonably good it ought
to pay the farm value of the grain und
fodder that it eats. In that way
farmer Is making more than he could
by selling it. ty improving his stock
the farmer can make It pay market
prices for all the grain he feeds it,
The Guinea Fowl
fowl lays well, none rear
voung with so little trouble or care to
the owner. They hateh out in
meadows or fields, and
bring home
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ta
Tite
If set and
to rest when quite small
reared under ordinary
with the chickens,
years packed great quantities
euinea eggs in the fall; we use them
all winter in every way: they
well,
the gulnea eggs
chicken eggs ure sent to market.
guinea fowls are
~{ountry Gentleman.
Bedding Tuberous Begonias,
Tuberous bego
habit and chara
better nnderstood
nias have improved in
by
the
open
COIne ETOWErS,
and are to-day among first
plants for bedding
Not least of
and bloom
mer
in ground.
the merits is
profuse from
until The
varieties are
early
blossoms of
nil shad
Another thing in favor
that
vn successfully | ots. eit
sum
frost, ti
several of
but blue.
ne plants i
color
0 they may Ix
TON
ner
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© Open ZTounda «
ing winter. The best 8
is rich yet
rather sandy soil
The bulbs may be planted in
beds where they are to bloom.
earlier blossoms will be had if bulb
are started boxes, « usin
sandy loam or leaf mold.
in pots or Ig
Pots should
i0t
and plenty
be maeh larger than
of
nished by using stones and broken bits
of pots in the bottom. ©
lightly with sail, moisten the soil tl
ougidy, and Keep it moist,
at all times,
dow of the
REVS ti
the
gtier
sig
the bulbs,
drainage must be fur
over the
Or
but not wet,
Place the pots in the win
repotting,
up.
13 t
HVIing
folia
rool,
18 ge sinris
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LH
2
itly larger pot, changing to ¢
larcer one if bef
to open ground, which will be
NeCesSsary ore trans
Fring
in late May or early June
fiw plants to be put into the out
foor bed, soak the doil in the pot thor
yaoghly
hike with the ball of earth adhering to
the I just deep enough so that
the top will stand out of the ground, as
it did in
and dur
done
are
£1 134
an
Fools,
the pot.
ing the summer give an abund
ance of water. After frost the bulbs
should be taken up, dried somewhat
in the sun and packed away in dry
sand in the cellar until spring. Each
year the blossoms will be finer from
the old bulbs. Chicago Record.
: Shade for Sweet Peas.
At
chose two sites with a v
with unusually good success,
onset 1 jew
of ascertaining which was the better.
One had a southern exposure, the lines
extending east and west, entirely pro
tected on north side, while upon ithe
other dhe lines were planted to extend
porth and south, front the east and
protected on the west and aorta. The
seeds were put in about the first week
«of April. Those planted on the south
side cane up first, and the vines grew
tall and beautiful, while the others
themsives above ground.
vided wire netting and for those on
the east side used ordinary twine fast
envd to stakes set about three
apart. 1 soon found the netting, al
though by far the more convenient, by
no means a good arrangement for
the vines, for the wire, acting as a
conductor of heat, withered and dried
them so that by noon the stems hung
timp and flabby, while the flowers bad
fost their brilliancy of eolor. I began
40 notice this almost as soon as blos-
soms appeared, and then watched to
soe If the same thing occurred with my
wast side vines. 1 found it did not,
and also that the stems upon these
opened than upon the others,
ing.
“40 the vines,
o-
a ————
the vines outran even this height and
came near putting Mother Goose to
shame by rivaling Jack's beanstalk,
The stems were long and strong and
the flowers, many of them, were as
large ax are represented by the pie-
tures in the seed growers’ catalogues
which 1 had previously thought greatly
exaggerated. These vines blossomed
until the middle of October, by being
protected from frosts, and were still
green and flourishing when pulled up
in order to prepare the ground for an-
other season,
The following year 1 planted only
upon the eastern site, lines extending
ners, and the results
| good,
were
| favorable conditions as to soil
| ful cutivation of sweet peas.—L.
| land Homestead,
Thin Seeding of Grain.
Less grain per acre is sown In this
whom three to three and one-half
bushels of oats are often deemed nec
| essary,
| always moist, and as farming is gen
| erally rich it needs this thick seeding
to make the plants crowd each other
{ from the start and thus prevent
luxuriant growth, Here such a seed
ing on land of moderate fertility might
not produce anything but the stoaw of
grain without any heads. We
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OLee
at the end of the row that a wider
balk was made than the single width
| of the drill passing across the rows at
Leach end would cover. We were only
with the drill two bushels of
seed per acre, s0 we thought, not to
leave any balks, to drill twice across
i sowing
each end,
though it made
early dried up
good appearance,
and amounted
a
to
| head out.
If clean, sound, plump oats can be
| liad, a bushel and a half drilled in with
some phosphate is better than a great
ow
i er quantity. 1
0
here Is no crop, not even
| wheat, to which conpuercial phosphate
Ww
it seeding of oats, which should
the
is so well adapted as the oat.
this li
| be always drilled early, we gave
1
a light harrowing just after the
10 come up. This
ug 3
vt ween the
ely covered the
forth.
to root
Hore SHOES
i root for every roves,
The
face soil,
+ wil
il be broken,
harrowing al the sit
so that any crust formed by
* ew jeaye
t up =o quickly and so plent
ill
the season.
af BO ore oriast Ww form on
the surface ough such
alway overs the ground at har
srain
vost
®
with a better crop than can be got
if
y and one-half bushels
per
rnin comes up.
fo
if
| from two to tw
of
FOWwWed
weed] sown sere, but not har
aiter the
x
such
light
and
seed] than
On rich
The grain grown
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seeding is nearly
full, and is worth more for
grain grown in
land with a fair
0 to 100 bushels of oats from so li
ip
always ple
3
the usual way
season we have grown
ght
a seedling as one and one-half bushels
Nor peed this be surprising.
as a single oat grain has been Known to
produce bearing a
i head well it
that as usually sown much of the seed
oats fail to produce anything. Oats
are often threshed while still damp
I from the field, and if such oats are put
| in close bins the vitality of their germ
| is quickly destroyed by heating. To
{ make sure of getting sound seed onts
| they should not be threshed until win-
| ter, and pever Be allowed to heat in
even the least degree. Every such seed
put into the ground will not only grow,
but it can be made to produce a hun.
{dred fold, though this is bard to
cure under ordinary crop conditions,
All our grains are doubtless for our
climate sown more thickly than Is
necessary. More attention to the qual
ity of seed and its ability to germinate
would pay farmers better. Grain that
will not grow, or that makes
such a feeble growth that neighboring
grain dwarfs it, ig about the most ex-
pensive manure a farmer can use. Yet
this 1s what many farmers are doing
| with a large part of the seed grain that
| they put into the soil, where it simply
#iX 10 seven stems
filled with oats. ix plain
“er
either
| rots and furnishes plant food for the
| weed that could germinate. — American
Cultivator.
Farm Items
Keep a close watch on the chickens
for croup.
A swill of ground oats and barley is
very good for sows and pigs. Add a
little soaked corn as soon as the pigs
are old enough to eat.
Watch the hired man and see that he
takes proper care of the horses. There
is as much in caring for horses as there
is in feeding.
Stables should be well ventilated,
lighted and deained: should have tight
floors and walls, and be plainly con.
structed.
A person suffering from any disease,
ous disease, must remain away from
the cows and the milk.
Bad ventilation in the cow stable is
often the eause of bad butter, The
cow breathes the foul alr and the milk
becomes tainted.
heen shown that rations rich In pro-
tein are more conducive to rapid
growth and finer general appearance
‘than rations rich in earbobhydrates,
Af silage is fod to cows a short time
before milking, an odor will be ob-
READY MADE TEETH.
i
What Becomes of Them.
teeth are manufactured and sold every,
year. What becomes of them? It
destructible,
are made,
tucket of
The story Is told In Nan
a sen captain who was a
front teeth by accidental contact with
a belaying pin. For some time he be-
moaned his lost accomplishment, until
he found that
well with an artificial tooth whittled
out of a plece of wood, When a per.
carve out an incisor and put it in posi
tion, Then the audience would walt
until the tooth was swelled by the
moisture of his moth so that it would
not slip out.
When plates were discovered and the
dentist was able to supply a
whole mouthful of new teeth, the teeth
expert
themselves were carved out of ivory,
But constant grinding
away the and these elephant
teeth were not satisfactory.
To-day all artificial teeth are made of
porcelain, and will outlast a Methuse
Inh. Those which thie
trade “store teeth.” being carried in
gtock by the big dental supply houses
are manufactured in enormous quanti
would wear
ivory,
are known in
as
fies,
The porcelain
mineral
material, which con
tains various proportions, is
worked up like a sort of dough or plas
ter. forced Into molds and fused by In
fense heat In a furnace Each tooth is
coverssl with and Las one or
enanel,
more metal pins in the back to hold it
to the plate
Ii large lots these eth ean be made
VP
YT there Is one item
1
iu
cheaply, but
nd
etal holding
expense thnt cannot GYoercome,. a
that is the
the pin. The «
gr
a 1
stand the in
ost dq
«114
fi 3
i
Era at of thie nin
is platinum, and th wits nt
ing i
gens of
furnace
the rate of a cent a pin «
A great
in ex}
sbstitute f
raw material,
hs been spent werimes
SOIR or
bu en 1
the standard
fs ued bLiy
¥ $
Ges,
red sit publi
fang other
¥ prominent [x
Own tf ii
reproduced
culinrities of form and
5 tien
told as
all
ie
watohes
The teeth are set in plates of
gold and aluminum, but
num plate upon which has been |
a lining of tinted poreelain similar to
that used. for gum work, Tinted plates
as the teeth, bat the
shrinks in the firing, the fitting of such
HE porcelain
And now for the answer to the ques
are lost, sometimes
sometimes left as o fam-
Generally, however, they
thes
that
second
it is
is quite a
occasionally suggested
bikiness in
traffic it is not of large proportions.
of regular teethmakers they are
smashed up to get the platinum out.
Not long ago a man who found a
said that 10 cents a set was all they
were worth to any one but the person
whom they fitted,
The expensive teeth are not market.
able, and the marketable teeth are not
expensive. That is the whasls thing in
a nutshell
+ Yet teeth have been used over. A
lady went to a dentist with a set of
teeth which had belonged to her
mother, who was dead, She sald that
she had wore them, and now that her
own were gone she wanted the old set
remotnted for herself, It was done.
Boston Herald,
A ANSARI
Smithers’ Retort Sarcastic.
Mr. Smithers is a somewhat fastidi-
ous young man who is looking for a
pew boarding-place. Bmithers can't
abide the regulation boarding house
and always tries to Jive with a private
family. Tle is now convineed that an
“ad” which solicits boarders for a
for a stuffy, double flat, inhabited by
one small family and 24 boarders,
Sniithers ealled one day last week at
# place with a glowing description just
on the flank of Micligan avenue
his suspicions, but he had gone too far
then to back out. A sharp-nosed, snip-
py landlady came in, with a top-lofty
air,
“Kr-ah, I believe 1 am mistaken,”
he began. “I supposed 1 should find a
private family. By the advertisement
hu-m
The laughter and the familiar board-
o"
ten lady stenographers came up from
the dinlng-room in the basement. The
*
“You are efitirely mistaken, sir,” she
we have a few friends living with us.”
Smithers sniffed the alr. There was
a distinct odor of prunes and corned
beef,
“Well, I must say.” he remarked, ns
he turned up his cont collar and fled
down the steps, “that it smells lke a
boarding-house, madam.” Chicago
Record,
THE HEN'S WORK.
Scientific Data as to Eggs-—-At 25 Cents a
Dozen They Are Extravagant
The Agricultural Department,
through its experiment stations, has
food value of
o a large num-
American
eres at the various stations, an egg on
and
percentage of com-
10.5: water, 046; fat,
A side of beef con-
an about the
percentage of protein, but a larger per-
of fat. Egg the
nous group of foods, and would
amd quite property
i materials sup
investigating the
According t
made
wend
hen's eggs.
ber of analyses of
af average weighs two ounces
follow]
Shell,
and ash, 00,
ins the
position:
La
tains on average same
centage 8 belong to
be com
witl
carbohydrates {sugar
such
California
ahiiect
as cereals, potatoes, ete,
experiment station
examination
to determine whether there was
hasis of fact for the popular opin
brown shells have
those with
said by some
richer than
» poknessed
i
dif
pnute
Min
was di
nis
ry
of brea
found
the
was digested. which
and it
> £ ¥ - 4 » “4%
i 00 to 05 per cent
vis} ye¥ a %
ait ONS, wi
taroiein
usion that ef
i nutritive
gs do really [ro®
NRE i hig
which ar to be
popularly supposed
long to then
kinds and
nx to the fmounts
ons occupations and the relative cost
foods the Department finds
that, compared with other foods at the
usual prices, eggs at twelve couts per
dozen are a cheap source of nutrients;
st sixteen cents per dozen they are
{alrly expensive, while at twenty-five
cents a dozen and over they are ex-
travagant,
of such
Seme Fish.
The followers of Izaak
Walton on
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
A MISSPELLED TAIL,
A little buoy said: ‘Mother deer |
May Eye go out too play i
The son is bright, the heir is clear, |
Owe! mother, don't say neigh!” |
“(io fourth, my sun,” the mother said;
His ant said: “Take ewer slay,
Your gneiss knew sled, all painted
read,
Butt dew knot lose ewer weigh,”
“Ah, know!" he cried, and sought the
sirset
With bart sew full of gleo—
The weather changed and snow and
sleet
And reign fell fierce and free,
Threw snowdrifts grate, threw wat'ry
pool,
He flue with mite and mane—
Said he: Though I wood walk by
rule,
Eye am knot write, 'tis plane.
“Ide like two meat some kindly sole
For hear gnu dangers weight,
And yonder stairs a treacherous whole;
To sloe has bin my gate,
“‘A peace of bread, a gneiss hot stake,
Fwed chews if Eye were home:
This cruel fate my heart will brake,
I love knot thus too Home.
“I'm week and pail; I've mist mY
rode”
Butt hear a carte came passed—
He and his sled were safely toad
Back two his home at last,
Hpriver'' ANTS
In Africa there are ants that travel
at night in great droves and visit every
in the Then svery-
in that wakes right up
hurries the sireets
"ne 3 3 2 3
They nave to, 80 do the dogs and
house
body
village,
house
ana out into
and
the cats and the rats and the spiders
i the cockroaches and everything
we, for
o hungry, and
IBNY « fithem
has life and can nu these
ure so fierce an
, 1hat every
way or be
take them
ing everything
for the peo
io not keep
one time, ana
JAPAN,
Japan
schol
i ear
al
aren
new parents,
fo five cents
pnis for 1
re
¢, thereiore, spe inliy
From five years npward the chil
do their begging ‘by themselves
the age fourteen or id4
pretext of paper
and other rubbish, they prowl round
hie courtyards of the he
Their weapon
a long stick, the end of w
steeped in glue, aud with which
in removing
from open windows, ete,
filteen, uu
8 “wa 5
g Wasi
gatberin
uses and com
nenee to steal. usual
in hich 1s
ney
’
rifles
At gixteen they are taught the art
of picking pockets with skill and dis-
patch, and from the rank of beggars
rise to the rank of thieves. Daily
lessons are given to the young thieves
by the chiefs of each band, and the
The
whole thing has been reduced to a
the gentle art (with a line alone) from
seeing the line depending
of one of the main deck ports and gave
it a couple of violent tugs, in imitation
of a fish biting. Up the line was hanled
with alacrity, but, of course, with no
Once again the “sab” essayed
him so heavy a bite. This time the
middy’'s plan was more elaborate, for
getting a companion to keep the neces.
sary strain upon the upper portion, he
panied up the lower part of the fshing
fine and attached to the hooks an old
shoe, an empty bottle, a holy-stone,
and a sardine tin, Having carefully
lowered these to the full extent of the
line, he gave it a more powerful puli
that ever, and the expectant fisherman
above hauled in as fast as he could,
But his language,
when he discovered the nature of Lis
“eatelr,” is too much to ask even an
unfortunate compositor to set up in
cold type.~The Cornhill,
The Mother-indaw in Court
This didn’t happen in Georgia, but It
“happened” just the same.
“My mother-in-law ix the eause of all
my troubles,” sald the prisoner when
arraigned before the magistrate for
failure to support his wife. J
“You should have courted your
motherdn-daty,” sald the judge, “and
then you would not have any trouble.
courted my motherdndaw,” sald the
Ro hi
*
burglary are carefully taught in every
detail, specialists having been known
to go to the large European capitals
to study different methods of ab-
siracting a purse. Such a one some-
times has as many as 160 shrewd
pupils at a time under his tutelage.
The whole thieven' colony is re-
garded by a code of laws, and these
are administered with the ntmost se-
verity. The youngest thieves keep
ten per cent of their earnings, the
better class of pickpockets forty per
cent, and some fifty per cent, or even
sixty per cent. The surplus of the
profits is invested in the teaching of |
pupils, and employed as the chiefs of |
the community deem necessary for the |
general well being. The thieves are
great adepts in disguise, and it is very
difficalt for the peoiice to catch them
red-handed, |
TAME SQUIRRELS, |
carry had gone with bis mother to
market, and had spent the only three
nnies he had in the world in bay.
ng peanuts for the squirrels in the
groands of the State House. There |
were 6 great many of the little ani. |
mals, and in the trees were boxes in
which they made their homes.
As Harry and his mother entered
the grounds an old woman with a big
basket on her arm fall of provisions
brushed them, She had gone
only a little way waen she n the
irrols skipping the grass,
She stemned or and stopped
distance she looked back and saw that
the basket was almost hidden from
view by the squirrels, which were
greedily devonring a bag of pop-corn
they had broken open,
Harry could not help laughing at
the old woman's fright; but he brushed
carried it to her, the little animals
running after him.
The old woman was very glad to
get her basket again, and very much
surprised to see Harry stand still and
let the squirrels run all over him to
get the peanuts in his pockets, under
his collar, and in his little red mittens.
It was great fun for him and for the
squirrels, too; but the old woman
thought it very dangerous sport,
“*1{ I were vour mother you shouldn't
do that,” she suid, as she walked
away.
Harry looked up at his mother and
laughed,
“I'm glad Ihave a mother who isn't
afraid of tame squirrels,” he said,
es —
DOROTHY DREW AND
¥ Dorothy Drew's own account of her
visit to the queen is given in a sketeh
of the you grand-daughter of the
inte Mr. in The Young
Woman:
Her first of Windsor Castle
from the train moved her to reflect
that it was * just as nice as our castle.”
Then she came very near getting ex-
cited, horses and the
royal carriage that came to meet them,
with the footman behind and the
groom on horseback in front, pleasing
her very much. And Princess
Beatrice met them at the door, Doro-
thy, forgetting that queens do not
meet their subjects on doorsteps,
imagined that the princes was her
Dorothy st relates how
she and her mother had alittle sitting-
recom and a bedroom, with big fives,
all made, just as if
i
ug;
THE QUEEN,
y
ng
(rladstone
view
the two white
wh
iii
majesty,
; ’
with tl
ana
nig
with
“the one
Was Yery nice
goin stay all
sat down
grownups,”’ and how
fliey were
ow they innuehieon
¥
$ :
ue
who sat by me
“Have YOu ever ing i
*
the queen be-
# i y wn: gs 44% V 2 aul i
tue MOAY-in-waiting asked
slic wens
on he:
« and how
in red
aS walt
the queen
- and
be-
1o0F.
stood
Om
had i for
Dorothy
Anocluer wolnas
her
sixty
was just
imamma,
sead,
ES er gra
with and
ber,
1 her her name was ““Dorsie’’;
that y had pet
le, and so on and so on,
ing |
des
a white cap on Le
Dorothy courtesied and kissed
and
smes at the
and many
revealed
fii
el nanies re
glasses and
aer side of
nid see me
“aud then
and said:
(queen pui
3 10 86 10
#0 that
Hy expialins,
she co
5 EWel Case
ing
and saw § dar little
ith a diamond V and a dia
turquois I. and a little
wade of rd enamel
1 hand and
She
courtesied
aid, ‘Thank )
ovked very nice and kind, and liked
ber ve ym nel,’
Ti the kissed the little
debutante again and Dorothy and her
mother returned to town
The story ix also told that at Ha.
warden one morning Dorothy refnsed
to get up. When sll other means had
failed to coax her out of bed, Mr
(Gladstone was called.
“Why won't you get up, my child ¥”
he asked.
“Why, grandfather, didn't you tell
me to do what the Bible says?” asked
Dorothy.
“Yes, certainly.”
“Well, it disapproves of early ris-
ing; says it's a waste of time.
Mr. Gladstone knew his Bible
better than most men, but he was not
equal to Dorothy. For once in his
life he was non plnssed,
“Yon listen, then.” went on Doro.
mach,
en gqiieen
astonishment, and turning up her
Bible she read the second verse of
the 127th Psalm, laying great em-
phasis on the first words, ‘‘It is vain
New Disease for Women.
Some local doctors are treating a new
trouble known as dog palsy. Most of
have been traveling about the streets,
each holding a chain or cord, to which
is attached a dog. The lively fox ter.
riers ave responsible for the most ag.
gravated cases of the palsy, as they
jump about so much when out for an
airing. The hand, vsually the tight,
shakes and swings when free, just as
it a dog were pulling at it on the end
Bulldog palsy is less pro.
noanced, though it is =aid that the
steady pull of that breed has length.
ened many a pet owner's arm. The
treatment for the palsy is sywolute rest
for the arm, and an admonition not to
lead or, rather, follow the dog with a
chain. Philadelphia Record,